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• management n. 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit).
  Spoken derisively, as in "Management decided that ....
• uit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• pseudosuit: /soo'doh-s[y]oot`/ n. A {suit} wannabee
  a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!...
• mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• Brooks's Law: prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• uit n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• mangler: [DEC] n. A manager. Compare {mango}; see also {management}.
  Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....